xv, 828 pages 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 773-796)

Whose public lands? -- Colonial land systems -- State cessions of western land claims -- Land ordinance of 1785 -- Acquisition of the public domain -- Private land claims -- Credit sales experiment, 1800-1820 -- Cash sales, 1820-1840 -- Cash sales, 1840-1862 -- Preemption -- Military bounty land policies -- Grants to states on admission to union -- General grants to states -- Land grants for railroads and internal improvements -- Homesteading, 1862-1882 -- An incongruous land system -- Use and abuse of settlement laws, 1880-1904 -- Dry farming and stock raising homesteads, 1904-1934 -- Early efforts to protect public timberlands -- Administration of the public of forest lands -- Administration of public grazing lands -- Legal aspects of mineral resources exploitation

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